Ana-Maurine Lara

Ana-Maurine Lara (born 1975) is a Dominican American lesbian poet, novelist and black feminist scholar. Lara was born in the Dominican Republic. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Harvard-Radcliffe University, and a PhD in African American Studies and Anthropology from Yale University.

Lara is a long-time LGBT human rights activist and supporter, having served on the Board of Directors for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Social Justice.

Her creative work and scholarship focus on questions of black and indigenous women's freedom, love and ancestors. Since September 2015, she is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon.

Personal life

Lara is the daughter of Dominican Ambassador to the United Nations, Erasmo Lara Peña and the American poet Elizabeth Lara. For many years her father worked in the United Nations Secretariat. For this reason, she grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and also lived briefly in the Middle East. Ana-Maurine graduated from Mount Vernon High School, in Mount Vernon, New York. She then went on to study at Harvard University. After college, she spent several years in Boston, working in the field of HIV/AIDS research and participating in the local arts for social justice work of the group Mango con Pique. In 2000, she left Boston and headed West. She returned East for graduate studies at Yale University in 2009. While at Yale University, she worked under the guidance of scholar Jafari Sinclaire Allen.

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